If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get super-lucky.

Ian Malcolm:

You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!

The best way to fight terrorists is to go at it not like G-men, with two-year assignments and query letters to the staff attorneys, but the way the terrorists do, with fury and the conviction that history will turn on the decisions you make -- as an obsession and as a life style.

Johan de Kleer:

One passionate person is worth a thousand people who are just plodding along ...

Lauren Clark:

It's good to have a plan, but if something extraordinary comes your way, you should go for it.